The search for a missing Ross County boy resumed Tuesday morning at a large campground in Adams County.
Cameron Walters, 5, was last seen at around 5 p.m. on Monday at Mineral Springs Lake Resort, near Peebles, Ohio; the campground consists of more than 400 campsites and 350 acres, according to local authorities.
Dive teams stayed on scene until about 2 a.m. Tuesday looking in the large body of water for the missing boy. Teams included four-county Sheriff’s offices, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Ohio Highway Patrol, and numerous fire departments.
Searchers returned this morning at around 6:30 a.m. Additional dive teams will arrive at around 10 a.m., the Sheriff said.
Adams County Sheriff Kimmy Rogers told the Guardian that they have no evidence that Cameron is in the lake, or if he is simply lost in the woods. The Sheriff added, however, that a helicopter was brought in with thermal imagery and flew above the nearby woods with no signs of the boy.
Walters lived with his parents, who reside in Chillicothe. He was at the resort with his mother, father, and grandparents, the Sheriff said, and was last seen playing near the water.
When asked if the boy could have been abducted, the Sheriff said that “anything is possible,” but that teams will continue to search the lake until something new develops.
“We will never stop looking,” Rogers added.
